Sentences with phrase «to act on climate»

You may have noticed: We can't act on climate change.

Besides the effect of outside pressure, Chinese officials were also motivated to act on climate by internal criticism over the country's poor air quality.

It is important to remember that the enhanced greenhouse effect is not the only factor acting on the climate system.

Not only are countries around the world acting on climate change, so are businesses.

It's a good thing that cities aspire to lead the way in acting on climate change in the absence of stronger national action.

The political risks of acting on climate change are going down: the risks from not acting are rising.

Besides the effect of outside pressure, Chinese officials were also motivated to act on climate by internal criticism over the country's poor air quality.

Today at the White House, Secretary of State John Kerry and senior White House officials will host 13 of the largest companies from across the American economy who are standing with the Obama Administration to launch the American Business Act on Climate Pledge: Alcoa, Apple, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Cargill, Coca - Cola, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, UPS, and Walmart.

With more than a billion Catholics (and quite a few non-Catholics) hanging on his every word, Pope Francis will passionately make the humanitarian and spiritual case for acting on climate change — through, among other things, the conservation of resources, the pursuit of renewable energy, and the reduction of greenhouse gases.

As of December 10, 318 colleges and universities representing over 4 million students have demonstrated their commitment by joining the American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge.

Alberta's failure to act on climate leadership has hurt -LSB-...]

«In a three - way race, I think that a candidate who wants a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, health care for all, a Green New Deal to provide full employment while acting on climate change, and who supports progressive taxes to adequately funds our schools and local governments will have the most support among the voters,» stated Hawkins.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

«We should act on climate mitigation and adaptation not because we are able to predict the future, but because we can not.»

With such solid evidence being laid before us, I want to be able to look my daughter (and hopefully grandchildren) in the eye when I'm an old man and although my generation dithered on acting on climate change, at least I tried to change things to the best of my abilities.

«We are ready to leverage our considerable collective authority to act on climate through policies related to clean energy, utilities, transportation and more.»

Within Canada, we've been talking about acting on climate change for a long time.

Acting on the Climate Leadership Team's full package of recommendations would attract an additional $ 5 billion in renewable energy investment to B.C. over the next 10 years.

Former Vice President Al Gore says he's given up hope that Trump will «come to his senses» and act on climate issues, telling «Late Show» host Stephen Colbert that his hopes about the president were wrong.

As Sanderson explains, «Historically, some countries have been unwilling to act on climate without very comprehensive and clear goals from the U.S.»

At Exxon's annual meeting in 2015, chairman Rex Tillerson said it would be best to wait for more solid science before acting on climate change.

Whereas acting on climate change seems to feature prominently in the reflection paper, it remains to see how much the European Commission will finally embrace the concept of climate mainstreaming its EU budget proposal, which consequently should lead to exclusion of financing fossil fuel infrastructure post-2020.

Emissions data critical for targeted climate action Knowing how much CO2 is being released and from where better enables countries to act on climate commitments 7 November 2016

Failing to do so would effectively shut the door on thousands of clean energy jobs and increase our dependence on fossil fuels, even as the need to act on climate demands the opposite.

Just few days before the Resilient Cities congress, the government passed Law 30754 — the Framework Act on Climate Change.

The Friends of the Earth Netherlands case is the first climate lawsuit demanding a fossil fuel company acts on climate change, rather than seeking compensation.

What makes the U.S. stand out has been a concerted effort by the fossil fuel industry to influence the public and policymakers at the highest levels of government to question the science and delay acting on climate change.

The Catholic leader has called acting on climate change «an ethical imperative.»

The ninth annual summit - organized by The Climate Group - focused on how acting on climate change drives to innovation, jobs and prosperity for all.

... But Aren't Acting Quickly Enough to Solve It What I'd add to the negative part is that international and domestic policymakers may be more and more on the same page regarding acting on climate change, but very, very few of them seem to grasp the comprehensive economic changes that have to happen to prevent it, and the speed with which these have to happen.

Midway through the piece, veteran environmental marketer David Fenton explains how tough it is for people to wrap their heads around acting on climate change.

So if it was just humans acting on the climate system, we're predicting a 30 percent decline in snowpack between now and 2040.

The first was the encyclical by Pope Francis in June, in which he warned of «serious consequences» if the world did not act on climate change.

Modeled on the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, it complements any previous pledges or commitments institutions might have already.

American Campuses Act on Climate Change is a White House initiative signed by President Rosenberg Further commits Macalester to become Carbon Neutral by 2020 Integrates carbon neutrality and sustainability into the curriculum at Macalester

To be sure, the Clean Power Plan's supporters feel the fierce urgency of acting on climate change.

Within four hours, we'd gathered nearly 3,700 signatures on our petition to world leaders to act on climate at the UN talks in Paris beginning this November.